Misleading title. The issue was that, in discrimination cases, lower courts started making majority groups (white people, straight people) provide extra evidence of discrimination than is usually required in order to win an employment discrimination case. All this decision did is clarified that, for discrimination cases, majority groups don’t need to provide extra evidence of discrimination—there isn’t a higher bar for majority groups. The ‘burden’ of evidence of discrimination is the same regardless of which group is claiming discrimination. The Supreme Court, in making this decision, didn’t decide any facts, they just instructed the lower court to look at the case again with this clarification in mind. The lower courts might still find she wasn’t subject to discrimination.

Interesting! Very interesting. I feel like all these ‘anti-rules’ of relationship anarchy are just as difficult to manage as those of monogamy. But idk, never done relationship anarchy, so just an outsider’s perspective.

Not arguing against the substance of the article, but I can’t help but wonder if this is the best way to address this issue. Measles was eradicated from the US but is now back and has claimed lives purely due to vaccine skepticism. I just worry that yet another article criticizing the FDA for pushing drugs that aren’t safe/effective will do more harm than good at this point. Idk, I just sincerely question if now is the time to give americans more reasons not to trust medical professionals. (Again, not arguing with the substance of the article—very disappointing and disturbing that FDA is doing this—but just concerned about the time, manner, and place of this criticism.)

Orange hitler made those pardons weeks ago, so wtf took so long?

My first thought as well. As a gay man, you couldn’t pay me to step foot in that country.

It’s one democracy, Michael, what could it cost? 100 dollars?

I majored in political science in college. Can that count?…. Please? Please? PLEASE?

I’m sorry, but they swore oaths to the Constitution. It’s not about practicality or what’s politically expedient—it is their duty to impeach if the president commits crimes in office, which he has. Do your fucking jobs. Wtf.

Lol there was literally 4 months left until the 2024 election when Biden dropped out. Using those few weeks to have a primary and lose the Biden-Harris warchest would’ve made no sense. Every single person that voted for Biden in the primaries ALSO voted for Harris. We all knew that if he stepped down, she’d step up. It literally made sense. Of all the criticisms against Democrats, this is a very very stupid one. The Democratic party would’ve imploded even harder than it already is. People that played the “We DiDnT vOtE fOr HER iN tHe PrImaRiEs” were literally just looking for an excuse to not vote in the general and not feel bad about themselves.

As a liberal who donated literally hundreds of dollars last year to ActBlue thinking I was saving democracy, Democrats have completely lost me. I’m done. After a loss as bad as 2024, how those Democratic leaders all stay in their positions is beyond me. Schumer, Jeffries, the entire DNC should’ve been fired and replaced. They are losers who made us lose to a fucking moronic orange rapist. And the fact that they’re STILL lying about putting the thumb on Clinton’s scale over Bernie’s in 2016 is as dishonest as it is infuriating. Fuck the Democratic party forever.

(For the record, will continue voting blue because the most corrupt democrat is better than the nicest magat, but we need a new party on the Left STAT)

“I think that the best definition of a species is if it looks like that species, if it is acting like that species, if it’s filling the role of that species then you’ve done it," she said.

How does she know what a dire wolf looked like and acted like though? They went extinct 10,000 years ago! I hate this quite frankly . Unethical, wasteful, and they’re not even dire wolves!